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Photius of Nicomedia
martyr at Nicomedia
SaintResearchedDate unknown
Feast: 4 March (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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unknown
Died
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unknown
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not on record
Who they were
At Nicomedia in Bithynia, in present-day Turkey, Saints Photius, Archelaus, Quirinus and seventeen others, martyrs.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 4 March as a martyr at Nicomedia, named with Photius, Archelaus, Quirinus and seventeen others.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 4 March (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Rb89c0767 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.